The actress said that we ‘wouldn’t be in this mess’ if people in China had ‘stuck to’ cheese sandwiches.

Catherine Tyldesley has joked that Chinese eating habits have led to the Covid-19 pandemic in a video posted on social media.

The former Coronation Street actress, who was playing her comedy alter-ego Olga Keff in the video, said she was showing her followers “one of her favourite lockdown recipes”, which is a cheese sandwich with brown sauce.

She said: “Tell you what, if Chinese had stuck to cheese sandwich we wouldn’t be in this mess.”